Quote from: Triple J on August 25, 2011, 10:36:51 AM
According to Arnall (2007), discipline means teaching the child by gentle guidance, such as re-direction, natural consequences, listening and modeling, and not by punitive means such as spanking, time-out, grounding, and punitive consequences.

I was raised by tree huggers

Natural consequences governed my life

the consequence for pissing off my parents was naturally, a beating

Oh Rat....

Any time I see a new thread that you start, I know it's guaranteed to be a fascinating read but at your expense.

Sorry but thanks.    

Good luck with all the vermin in your world!  Will be watching for the artfully crafted story of their demise with hands over my eyes but with fingers spread.

     

Quote from: Jacob on August 25, 2011, 11:32:09 AM
I was raised by tree huggers

Natural consequences governed my life

the consequence for pissing off my parents was naturally, a beating

My parents weren't tree huggers, but they apparently held the same thought as yours regarding natural consequences! 

If you've got a spare .22, I've got a week off coming up.  

I'll ride the 999, park it by the shed/Rat Resort and open the throttle.  I figure the rats will all run out of sheer terror, and we can pick them off.  

i had a mouse infestation a few years ago from a house that was demolished behind me. it was afwul! i didnt have any real food out & about for them so they took up home in my leather couch & proceded to eat that. i didnt realize until i was doing some cleaning & lifted up the cushions to vacuum & found they had tunnelled through the back & into the bottom of the cushions. it was crazy!! & i could hear them in the attic & theyd run across the floors & scare the crap out of me! theyre gone now, but i completely feel your pain... although i have to giggle at the irony of rat having rats, maybe you're the rat king

Quote from: The Bacon Junkie on August 25, 2011, 02:03:48 PM
If you've got a spare .22, I've got a week off coming up.  

I'll ride the 999, park it by the shed/Rat Resort and open the throttle.  I figure the rats will all run out of sheer terror, and we can pick them off.  

That's a long way to ride to shoot rats.

Quote from: The Bacon Junkie on August 25, 2011, 02:03:48 PM
If you've got a spare .22, I've got a week off coming up.  

I'll ride the 999, park it by the shed/Rat Resort and open the throttle.  I figure the rats will all run out of sheer terror, and we can pick them off.  

You have a 999?

I must have missed that one...

Quote from: Speedbag on August 25, 2011, 09:53:05 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachment_parenting

Hmmm.

Sounds great. No doubt resulting in a totally dependent, socially inept, naive individual with no sense of discovery or real view of how the world really works.

I had an old boss who raised his kid like that.  She was 5 years old and still on boob-milk.  I had dinner at their house once... when the little girl was finished with her steak she asked to nurse.  The mom pulled out her utter, at the table, and the little girl went at it.  I'm all for breast feeding, but when you kid is old enough to ask for it AND you have a guest over for dinner 

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Quote from: elyse on August 25, 2011, 02:33:59 PM
maybe you're the rat king

I dub thee...

Willard.

Quote from: Buckethead on August 25, 2011, 07:40:58 PM
I dub thee...

Willard.

You captured my nightmares the other night with that pic

Well there you go then, befriend them and send them out to do your bidding.

I would dearly like them to go move in with my down-hill neighbor but they are too comfortable at my place

I would pour a veggie oil path to his house for them to follow...

and dump my food garbage in his shrubs at night

but they would just come home to Castle Rodentia after partying

Quote from: elyse on August 25, 2011, 02:33:59 PM
i had a mouse infestation a few years ago from a house that was demolished behind me. it was afwul! i didnt have any real food out & about for them so they took up home in my leather couch & proceded to eat that. i didnt realize until i was doing some cleaning & lifted up the cushions to vacuum & found they had tunnelled through the back & into the bottom of the cushions. it was crazy!! & i could hear them in the attic & theyd run across the floors & scare the crap out of me! theyre gone now, but i completely feel your pain... although i have to giggle at the irony of rat having rats, maybe you're the rat king

Oh yes...we have some mice as well...they don't skeeve me like rats do

and this is dispelling the myth that mice and rats won't share the same working zone

but the mice are less than desirable none the less

step-daughter's cat is a mouser so I am hoping that it earns its keep

and yes the irony...hence the thread name of war of the rats...

the book, the 4 legged ones and my screen name

Quote from: The Bacon Junkie on August 25, 2011, 02:03:48 PM
If you've got a spare .22, I've got a week off coming up.  

I'll ride the 999, park it by the shed/Rat Resort and open the throttle.  I figure the rats will all run out of sheer terror, and we can pick them off.  

3 of them, 4 if you count the .22WMR....WMR is scoped and the other 3 are heavy barrel match rifles dialed in for 100 yards with Lyman or Redfield match aperture sights, 3 clicks down and you'll be at 25 yards....sub-moa at 100 so you won't miss

Lapua and RWS match ammo for the 22's and for the 22wmr we have hornady prairie dog detonator rounds...a few thousand...come on over

we can also get snake-shot rounds for shooting them on the run...we can post at the kitchen windows above the basement door...snake-shot might be better due to urban bullet travel considerations

also have the silenced Gamo .22 caliber air rifle w/gold pellet supply...I want to see if it has the penetrating power....needs sighting-in though

now if I could find some cheap night vision gear I would be set